West Space invites you to Real Life Fantasies – a group exhibition featuring artists who defy dominant narratives of sex, sexuality, gender and desire, and define themselves according to their own terms and own pleasures.

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I’m thinking of these two moments as having potential for euphoria or at least a thrill / shock … and the drip , drop that inevitably follows. they are both available to me, a public (mood) swing & a bag of oranges from IGA (vitamin c). (Brighid Fitzgerald)

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Since i have become a mother, my relationship with my body has really shifted. My breasts are making so much milk and feeding my son, their role has changed so much, and i really wanted to create an image that captured some part of the body changing through childbirth. (Ruth O’Leary)

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The leaves of the Bunya pine are incredibly sharp and spiky. I often find myself and my transgender peers being like the leaves. Spiky and protective so we can grow as human beings. (Kaiwarr Clancy)

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Personally the themes discussed in this show, particularly sexuality and sexual freedom, are so foreign and “other” to me, even though my own work discusses this i struggle to be comfortable speaking about these topics, that i was raised to believe were taboo. (Lara Chamas)